Searching CHM files

[SpareSimian]

Search (control-F) in a CHM file appears to only search the current page. I'd like to be able to search the whole document.

My vendor gave me a big CHM file from an older product while I await the manual for one under development, and I needed to search it for a specific feature. I found it using my Mark I Eyeball looking at the table of contents, but the doc has no index so had it not been in the TOC, I would have had to manually page through a 140-page file.

[kjk]

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Advanced-options-settings#:~:text=%3B%20customization%20options%20for%20CHM%20UI.%20If%20UseFixedPageUI%20is%20true%2C%20FixedPageUI

You can set advanced setting:

ChmUI [
    UseFixedPageUI = true
]

This will use our html renderer (instead of using browser control) which enables better search.